There are at least 6,094,562 cases of coronavirus in the US and at least 184,914 people have died from the virus, according to the latest data compiled by Johns Hopkins University
From CNN's Jen Christensen
The money will help five existing high-throughput labs expand their network of coverage as early as this month. The goal is to speed up the turnaround of test results in regions that have had backups. One contract went to Nashville-based PathGroup, which has labs concentrated in the Southeast and Midwest.
A contract went to Maryland-based Maxim Biomedical for its Covid-19 test that has a single use test strip similar to a home pregnancy test that doesn’t need specialized equipment to read the results.
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